Land suitability procedure for sustainable citrus planning using the application of the analytical network process approach and GIS

Land suitability analysis for agriculture in the Abbay basin using remote sensing, GIS and AHP techniques

“…Standardization techniques convert the measurements in each criteria map into uniform measurement scale so that the resulting maps lose their Fig. 6 Distances to a town, b water sources and c road in the Abbay basin dimension along with their measurement unit (Reshmidevi et al 2009;Zabihi et al 2015). For standardization, all the criteria vector maps were converted to raster data formats.…”

“…The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) (Saaty 1980) technique integrated with GIS application environments has been used for agricultural land suitability analysis on various case study sites around the world (Zabihi et al 2015;Akıncı et al 2013;Zolekar and Bhagat 2015;Pramanik 2016;Malczewski 2004). It involves pair-wise and weighted multi-criteria analysis on a number of selected socio-economic and biophysical drivers.…”

“…Multiple criteria for agricultural land-use suitability mapping were derived based on literature reviews, field investigations and following FAO guidelines for agricultural land-use evaluation (Rossiter 1996;Zolekar and Bhagat 2015;Zabihi et al 2015;Bandyopadhyay et al 2009). Identification and mapping of agricultural land suitability is especially important in the basin given the following considerations: (1) the pressing need to increase agricultural productivity to meet growing food demands, (2) the growing risks of increased rainfall variability due to climate change in already water limited agricultural systems, and (3) the growing interest by local and regional policy and management bodies for evaluation of land capability for various land-use alternatives.…”

Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Delineating Agricultural Land in Jakarta Metropolitan Area’s Hinterland: Case Study of Bogor Regency, West Java

“…Recently, land evaluation has been integrated with soft system methodology for decision making, known as multi criteria decision making (MCDM). Tools for decision-making, among others the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) (Saaty, 2008) and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) (Saaty and Vargas, 2013;Aragonés-Beltrán et al, 2014;Zabihi et al, 2015) can be integrated with land suitability evaluation. This development is supported by the rapid development in remote sensing and geographic information systems (Malczewski, 2006).…”

Using AHP for evaluation of criteria for agro-industrial projects

“…In AHP experts can compare the importance of those criteria, which cannot be quantified. This is an advantage of the method which enables comparing qualitative criteria -social, environmental, and criteria of risk which are important when considering the agro-industrial business [8,9]. The practical need to create a sufficiently large (several hundred respondents) data bases of expert judgment data can be explained by the following reasons.…”